afferent nerve vs dorsal horn

afferent nerve and dorsal horn both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
afferent nerve	Yes	No	No	No
dorsal horn	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dorsal horn is a hyponym of afferent nerve; that is, dorsal horn is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than afferent nerve:

afferent nerve: a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system
dorsal horn: one of two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally from the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers

Other hyponyms of afferent nerve include dorsal root, posterior horn, posterior root, fillet, lemniscus.

afferent nerve (noun)	dorsal horn (noun)
a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system	one of two roots of a spinal nerve that passes dorsally from the spinal cord and that consists of sensory fibers

afferent nerve vs dorsal horn

afferent nerve and dorsal horn both are nouns.

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